hero

New blog post by Claire G The Power of Questions How can questions drive plot? Here’s a summary of what I’ve learned. Un-put-downable books utilise these types of questions: The long (big) question: this is the novel’s overarching question which can be used in your elevator pitch and is...

“The perfect plot, accordingly, must have a single, and not (as some tell us) a double issue; the change in the hero’s fortunes must be not from misery to happiness, but on the contrary from happiness to misery; and the cause of it must lie not in any depravity, but in some great error on his...

I have a question, a question and a few subsidiaries. It's a big, wide, existential kind of question. That, or a down-the-pub-after-one-too-many kind of question. One of the two. What is a hero in 2020? What do they do that makes them heroic? Can someone still be heroic without the rest of us...